Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 86

This is a scholarly polyglot Bible presentation displaying Psalm 86 (and partially Psalm 87) across four textual traditions in parallel columns: the King James Version with embedded Strong's Concordance reference numbers, the Greek Septuagint, the Hebrew Masoretic text (Tanakh), and the Latin Vulgate. The KJV/Hebrew columns present Psalm 86, a personal lament and petition attributed to David, in which the speaker—describing himself as poor, needy, and beset by violent enemies—appeals to God's mercy, forgiveness, and incomparability among divine beings, asking for guidance, protection, and a visible sign of favor. The Septuagint and Vulgate columns shift to Psalm 87 (numbered differently across traditions), a brief hymn about Zion as a holy city whose foundations God established and whose citizenship God will count among the nations, including traditional enemies like Rahab (Egypt) and Babylon. The most distinctive feature is the KJV column's interleaving of Strong's numbers directly into the English text, marking this as reference or study material rather than devotional reading—a format used in interlinear Bibles and concordance tools to map each English word to its underlying Hebrew or Greek lexical root. Anyone interested in comparative textual criticism of the Psalms, the divergence between Hebrew and Greek numbering conventions, or the use of Strong's Concordance in biblical study would find this a useful, if dense, reference document.

Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 86

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